Do you have a friend or business connection in
the construction, landscaping, or gardening fields?
Spread the word about us and help us partner with
businesses in our community. They provide goods
and services (donated or at good cost), we provide
free advertising!
Want to help out the garden? Here’s a list of items we
need. Feel free to contact us about making donations.
Contact Us
Email
[email protected]
Website
mcgarden.us
Yahoo! Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wormturners/
Facebook
morrisvillecommunitygarden@
groups.facebook.com
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 410, Morrisville, NC 27560
Garden Address
219 Church Street in Morrisville next to
First Baptist Church and behind the white house
RECYCLABLES
OFFICE SUPPLIES
We would love to have
these when you are done
with them:
• printer paper
• old tires
• envelopes
• old CDs
CONSTRUCTION/
MISC ITEMS
Planting Materials
• concrete block, scrap
wood (such as 2x6’s)
• old t-shirts
• compost
(including your
old coffee grounds,
egg shells, kitchen
scraps, etc.)
• organic fertilizer
GARDEN TOOLS
• kneelers
• garden scissors, pruners
• sprinklers
• wheelbarrows, wagons
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• ink cartridges
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• twine/string
• chicken wire,
bird netting
• bird feeder/bird seed/
bird bath
• benches
• chairs
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our Mission
Our goal is to provide
nourishment to our town in
several ways: by growing
sufficient produce for donation to the needy in
our community; by fostering community through
shared labor and service; and by offering educational
opportunities for the community. In these ways,
we believe we can feed our community to make it a
stronger, healthier, more cooperative place to live.
Board of Directors
Donna Willard President
Karsten Baumann Vice President
Laura Marsh Secretary
Jane DavisonTreasurer
Don Edwards Garden Coordinator
Rob SmithAcquisitions
Anne Stockdell-GieslerCommunications
Our Vision
How it works
The Morrisville Community Garden sees its mission
as a community-centered service organization. We
believe that a community garden offers the following
benefits to our community:
The MCG is a true community garden—there are
no individual plots, just a series of common plots
with lots of different foods grown—which foods are
grown will be decided by members.
• Encourages self-reliance by teaching people how
to grow their own food (think: WWI and WWII
Victory Gardens);
Because of this method of growing, all members
must contribute to the establishment and ongoing
maintenance of the garden. During the growing
season, members must commit to at least 1–2 hours
per week working in the garden.
• Strengthens community pride by giving
participants a common goal;
• Increases the town’s aesthetics by turning an otherwise unused lot into a beautiful, productive garden;
• Builds interpersonal relationships by bringing
together people who might never have met were
it not for the garden;
• Teaches compassion through charitable giving;
• Teaches the value of commitment and patience
through the months of devoted care a garden
requires to be productive;
• Supplements education by passing on skills and
knowledge that may not be part of a traditional
school curriculum;
• Promotes good health by giving people
opportunities to work in the fresh air;
• Gives people access to healthy, fresh, locally-grown
vegetables;
• Benefits the environment by attracting insects that
are good for local plant life, pollination, and
predation of pests;
The MCG board
hosts meetings
1-2 hours
throughout the year,
and all members are
always welcome.
If members can not
attend but wish to speak on an agenda item, they
can email their thoughts. If the choose not to
attend, decisions about the garden will be made
on their behalf.
Membership dues include the entire household
at the single membership address. In the case of
single-parent families, the parent who pays the
membership and designates his or her address on
the application will be the parent who is a member;
the children, whether they live full time or part time
with that parent, will be considered part of
the household.
The garden is a family friendly space and organization, and as such there is no behavior permitted
that might be deemed
inappropriate for children.